CVE-2022-50647

RISC-V: Make port I/O string accessors actually work

published December 9, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RISC-V: Make port I/O string accessors actually work

Fix port I/O string accessors such as `insb', `outsb', etc. which use

the physical PCI port I/O address rather than the corresponding memory

mapping to get at the requested location, which in turn breaks at least

accesses made by our parport driver to a PCIe parallel port such as:

PCI parallel port detected: 1415:c118, I/O at 0x1000(0x1008), IRQ 20

parport0: PC-style at 0x1000 (0x1008), irq 20, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]

causing a memory access fault:

Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000001008

Oops [#1]

Modules linked in:

CPU: 1 PID: 350 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-00283-g10d4879f9ef0-dirty #23

Hardware name: SiFive HiFive Unmatched A00 (DT)

epc : parport_pc_fifo_write_block_pio+0x266/0x416

ra : parport_pc_fifo_write_block_pio+0xb4/0x416

epc : ffffffff80542c3e ra : ffffffff80542a8c sp : ffffffd88899fc60

gp : ffffffff80fa2700 tp : ffffffd882b1e900 t0 : ffffffd883d0b000

t1 : ffffffffff000002 t2 : 4646393043330a38 s0 : ffffffd88899fcf0

s1 : 0000000000001000 a0 : 0000000000000010 a1 : 0000000000000000

a2 : ffffffd883d0a010 a3 : 0000000000000023 a4 : 00000000ffff8fbb

a5 : ffffffd883d0a001 a6 : 0000000100000000 a7 : ffffffc800000000

s2 : ffffffffff000002 s3 : ffffffff80d28880 s4 : ffffffff80fa1f50

s5 : 0000000000001008 s6 : 0000000000000008 s7 : ffffffd883d0a000

s8 : 0004000000000000 s9 : ffffffff80dc1d80 s10: ffffffd8807e4000

s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 00000000000000ff t4 : 393044410a303930

t5 : 0000000000001000 t6 : 0000000000040000

status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: 0000000000001008 cause: 000000000000000f

[<ffffffff80543212>] parport_pc_compat_write_block_pio+0xfe/0x200

[<ffffffff8053bbc0>] parport_write+0x46/0xf8

[<ffffffff8050530e>] lp_write+0x158/0x2d2

[<ffffffff80185716>] vfs_write+0x8e/0x2c2

[<ffffffff80185a74>] ksys_write+0x52/0xc2

[<ffffffff80185af2>] sys_write+0xe/0x16

[<ffffffff80003770>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2

---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

For simplicity address the problem by adding PCI_IOBASE to the physical

address requested in the respective wrapper macros only, observing that

the raw accessors such as `__insb', `__outsb', etc. are not supposed to

be used other than by said macros. Remove the cast to `long' that is no

longer needed on `addr' now that it is used as an offset from PCI_IOBASE

and add parentheses around `addr' needed for predictable evaluation in

macro expansion. No need to make said adjustments in separate changes

given that current code is gravely broken and does not ever work.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00205 · 10.0th percentile
Published
2025-12-09T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 00:00Z
    RISC-V: Make port I/O string accessors actually work
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